At Netflix, we realized that we weren’t in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had the courage to focus on him, everyone – movie studios, electronics companies, Netflix itself – won. Marc Randolph Read Quote
If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future – to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one. Marc Randolph Read Quote
Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility. Marc Randolph Read Quote
By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own. Marc Randolph Read Quote
My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired. Marc Randolph Read Quote
I tell aspiring entrepreneurs all the time: Validate your idea locally. Get some experience under your belt. Prove your idea has legs where you are. Spend some time as a big fish in a small pond. Demonstrate that there’s a there there… there. Where you live. Marc Randolph Read Quote
It used to be true that to succeed in the creative class, you had to move immediately to where the action was. It was how you made connections, how you got auditions, how you found an audience and funding and some attention for your craft. But not anymore. Marc Randolph Read Quote
I came from years and years in the direct marketing industry where everything is layered. Marc Randolph Read Quote
I wanted to use my story of starting Netflix – the whole thing, warts and all – to show how a dream could make it from the inside of one’s head out into the real world. Marc Randolph Read Quote
